"Ana" Overwatch

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Ana the new healer/sniper character on Blizzard’s MOBA: Overwatch.
I always talk in The Unashamed Gamers Podcast(available on YouTube) about my love for shooters and how I’m always juggling 3-4 at a time and as such I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Overwatch since launch but not hammering it as much as I thought I would, but once I caught word of a new character I was happy to get stuck back in.
A lot of players have a ‘main’, a character which they ‘mainly’ use or play more than others but I’ve not really had anything close to that. I have about 5 mains because well frankly, I’m flaky and greedy.
I love Roadhog for his self healing and devastating shotgun, I enjoy Junkrat for his frag launcher, concussion mine and Aussie swagger! I also play a lot of Mei, for those icicle headshots and Genji’s deflect has brought me countless smiles when eliminating pesky Bastion’s but Ana is nothing like them.
I’ve always leaned towards healers, whether it be a daisy in Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare or choosing a medic in pretty much any Battlefield game. When I was younger it felt good to get a lot of points even if I wasn’t the best shot. I’m marginally better at games now due to years of practice but still lean towards healers. For some reason that never happened for me in Overwatch, it seemed like a natural fit but non of the characters have taken me like the other classes have. Lord have ‘Mercy’ on me because she may be my least used character, what’s the opposite of a main?!
When I first read about Ana, mother of Pharah, a woman armed with a ‘biotic healing rifle’ I thought ‘only in Overwatch’ but from my first play through to my most recent I’ve never been more enamoured with a character in the game. I’ve always been a decent shot but to be able to shoot my teammates and not only not annoy them but them be thankful, is quite frankly a miracle, especially on a platform like Xbox where there is an abundance of whiny players, I was surprised how many times I had most heals in game and the whole team voted my card.
The beauty of the rifle is there's no switching between heal mode or assault, if you shoot a friendly they regain health, shoot an enemy they lose it. It’s beautiful in its simplicity and reinvigorates the thrill of shooting for me.
She has other abilities such as a handy sleeping dart for temporarily pressing snooze on a troublesome Torbjörn and making a quick exit. She also has a healing grenade and her special lets her buff one character to temporarily let them hulk out and deal more damage and take less damage. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of sniping an allied Reinhardt to keep him and his shield pushing forward then, buffing him when he’s in the capture zone and watching him clean up.
I think I’ve found my main!